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This week's latest meme is to make a John Cage Memorial Playlist from your iPod: all the songs that are exactly 4'33" long, symbolically duplicating Cage's most famous work, 4'33", go into the playlist. Here's mine. There are more than 2 hours of music in this, and a more eclectic JCMP you will not find anywhere—I can almost guarantee it.

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I have been loading the contents of my CD library into iTunes, semi-successfully. Still many discs left to go.

The one that has come up just now for importing is "Florence Foster Jenkins: The Glory (????) of the Human Voice". Those of you who do not know who Jenkins was, the Wikipedia article on Jenkins should give some background.

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...especially to my Antipodean friends for whom Christmas 2008 is close to being over, and to my American friends who haven't really had any yet (my friends on the West Coast are still at Midnight Mass, for those who indulge in such).

My Christmas present was iTunes suddenly losing everything. I had to recreate my library through Music Liberator, which was really easy to use and recreated the entire library from what was on my iPod. Lost a bit of the album artwork, but heigh ho!

Off to shower for Mass.
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Last night I got back from Nuneaton having discovered, by chance, that it is at almost the exact geographical centre of England. W00t! HWMBO was seeing a departing co-worker off, and didn't manage to get home until 9 pm! So instead of home-cooked duck we had Indian food at the shopping centre. Back home and to bed, warmly and with a fan.

This morning we had cereal instead of toast because we forgot to buy any bread yesterday...such an exciting life we lead. We went to Tate Modern this afternoon to see the Cy Twombly exhibition. We got separated inside it, and I thought HWMBO was behind me when he was actually in front of me. I sat there until I got a phone call in the middle of the exhibit (very embarrassing). I rushed through the rest of the rooms, which didn't annoy me too much as I have trouble appreciating Twombly. I suspect I didn't miss much.

We then had a drink at Starbucks, and walked to Waterloo Station so that HWMBO could get some cake for himself from Marks and Spencers. They didn't have the exact kind of cake he wanted, so he got strawberry cheesecake. I won't be having any...

Duck, corn-on-the-cob, and carrots for dinner. I then started ripping massive amounts of CDs to my new iPod and HWMBO is watching Ugly Betty. We have also discovered that there's a problem with our Sky (either the antenna or the box). We don't pay for maintenance, so I expect we'll be paying a bundle for someone to come out. However, it should be less of a bundle than if we paid a maintenance fee.

Tomorrow I'm preaching at St. John's, then vegging. Need to buy train tickets for Brighton Pride next Saturday, and for Nuneaton all week.
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For my USan friends, "valve" in electronic terms equals "tube" in the United States. And you thought they were obsolete? They're truly up-to-date!
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Many computer geeks have been aware of the fact that interacting with computers is more valuable to them than interacting with other people. The Register, not normally known for moralising on subjects other than stupidity in the computer biz, has printed this story about a school principal who has banned iPods in her school. The piece continues on the difficulties that society faces when we're all immersed in our own worlds, iPodded to distraction, not interacting with other people at all. Very thoughtful, and I fear, about half right. The other half is that the world is so unfortunate and awful nowadays that people take refuge in their own iPod world in order to ensure that they stay well clear of the "real world", whatever that is.

On Good Friday, as those of us who do such things ponder on life, death, and our relationship with each of those facts, perhaps taking off the iPod for a future Lenten discipline might be a good way of reconnecting with other people and exploring life as a society, and not as individuals alone.

(PS: I myself don't own one, but as a commuter [when I am working] there are other means of shutting out other people when you're in with a bunch of them, and they can be just as bad as wearing an iPod. So for those of us who don't have one, I propose thinking about those other means instead.)

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